GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man believed to be the suspect in an East Lansing murder surrendered to Grand Rapids police after a brief standoff Tuesday evening.

Just before 8 p.m., police shut down a stretch of Temple Street — near the intersection of Hall Street and Eastern Avenue — and surrounded a house. Around 8:30 p.m., a man inside exited the house and surrendered to police.

McCoy is listed in Michigan Department of Corrections records as an absconder from parole. He was arrested by GRPD for violating his parole, not directly for the homicide.

GRPD said police had been staking out the Temple Street residence since about noon Tuesday. They had seen him there and hoped they could arrest him when he left. But when he remained at the house, police decided around 7:45 p.m. to surround the house.

“The U.S. Marshals were surveilling the house and then determined someone was inside and activated our Special Response Team and our special negotiators because they wouldn’t come out,” GRPD Capt. Eric Payne said.

GRPD used a megaphone to try to talk to whoever was inside. After about half an hour, McCoy gave himself up.

McCoy first got in trouble for gross indecency with a girl when he was 8 years old, court records show. At 14, he was convicted of carjacking and later sent to a school for troubled kids.

In January 2013, according to Michigan State Police records, McCoy pleaded guilty to felony assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer causing injury, and misdemeanor possession of marijuana. At age 18, he was sentenced to between one and four years in prison, but served less than that.

MDOC spokesperson Russ Marlan said McCoy bolted out of the parole office in Grand Rapids in mid-January while his agent was checking texts and pictures on McCoy’s cell phone. MDOC says it then started an intense search for McCoy across Michigan.

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